Aveline
Aveline is a surname of Norman French origin, derived from a given name, a diminutive of Ava. The surname is in turn the origin of the given name Evelyn.
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In modern French, aveline means hazelnut. This is derived from the name of the Italian city of Avella, via the botanical name of the common hazel, Corylus avellana.
People
- Surname
- Claude Aveline (1901-1992), French writer and poet
- Pierre Aveline (1656-1722), French engraver
- Antoine Aveline (1691-1743), French engraver, son of Pierre
- Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702-1760), French engraver, son of Pierre
- Jean-Marc Aveline (born 1958), Archbishop of Marseille
- Joseph Aveline (1881-1958), French parliamentarian, mayor of Dorceau, and Percheron horse-breeder
- William Talbot Aveline (1822-1903), British geologist and archaeologist.
- Name
- Aveline de Forz (1259-1274), British countess
- Aveline de Grandpré, the protagonist of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Other
- Aveline's Hole, a cave in Somerset, England
- La Fée Aveline, a French comic by René Goscinny and Coq
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